Bug 19132 – xmms freezes on play when "/etc/init.d/alsasound restart" is not explicitly called after reboot

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dennis Nienhüser (RETIRED) 2003-04-11 06:47:21 UTC]

I installed alsa-driver for via8233 using the module snd_via82xx.
Everything works fine, except xmms after rebooting. sound is ok (kde is playing
sound), but xmms freezes when hitting play button.
If I kill xmms and do a "/etc/init.d/alsasound restart", xmms works fine.
Im not sure if it's an alsa- or xmms-related problem.
alsasound-script is started in runlevel boot.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. reboot (alsasound is started at boot time and working)
2. start xmms
3. hit play

Actual Results:  
xmms freezes. output is "Unexpected async reply (0x18e9). Segmentation fault"

Expected Results:  
play that song ;-)

Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.
nl/mirror/gentoo// ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo//"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi
g /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/kde/3.1/share/config:/usr/
kde/3/share/config:/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 oss 3dnow avi crypt cups encode gpm jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod mmx mpeg 
ncurses nls pdflib spell truetype xml2 xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts s
vga tcltk java guile sdl tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis motif open
gl X gtk -gnome kde alsa apm cdr gif mozilla png qt quicktime usb xmms"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 Joonas Kortesalmi 2003-04-12 08:15:03 UTC]

Is KDE using arts or something? via8233 (atleast mine) can't play more than one sound at one time so the sound device might be busy!

It might not be a bug after all. Try killing arts and all other sound daemons you may find.

[Comment 2 Joonas Kortesalmi 2003-04-12 08:17:04 UTC]

Oh yeah, also you might try using arts output plugin for xmms or something. Never used arts or KDE really but I'm pretty sure there's XMMS output plugin for its sound server.

[Comment 3 Dennis Nienhüser (RETIRED) 2003-04-12 18:11:44 UTC]

Indeed, you're right. killing artsd makes xmms go on with playing. 
 
However, starting artsd while xmms is running gives a nice "Device or resource busy" 
which is much more helpful than a freezing xmms telling to fill out a bug report. But 
that's no gentoo problem. 

[Comment 4 rob holland (RETIRED) 2003-05-15 12:13:16 UTC]

Dennis, sounds like I can close this ticket now. Is that ok?

[Comment 5 rob holland (RETIRED) 2003-05-20 18:01:53 UTC]

wasn't a gentoo issue

[Comment 6 Dennis Nienhüser (RETIRED) 2003-05-21 03:04:21 UTC]

yes, that's ok.